While visitors to Brooklyn's 18,000-seat Barclays Center can't help but notice the structure's weathered steel exterior, they are likely to miss a major portion of what made the multipurpose arena possible—the extensive underground infrastructure network.
A late influx of grant money for additional space coupled with evolving client needs created a dynamic design and construction environment for the Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) $38-million Golisano Institute for Sustainability.
Mount Sinai Medical Center's 450,000-sq-ft Leon and Norma Hess Center for Science and Medicine (CSM) integrates five lab research floors, two clinical floors, a clinical trials area, a vivarium, a radiation oncology department, a center for translational and molecular imaging and other spaces.
Originally opened in 1939 as a four-lane span, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge has expanded over the years to accommodate the roughly 200,000 vehicles that cross over it daily.
The first of more than 20 special pre-K to 12-grade schools planned worldwide, the $51.9-million Avenues: The World School in Manhattan was adapted from an old, historic warehouse.
With a commercial hydroponic farm on its roof, the eight-story, 120,000-sq-ft Arbor House in the South Bronx is not a traditional New York City affordable-housing structure.